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A burnt steel shade for barrels and exhausts

Burnt metal imitates steel that great heat has passed through. Such a surface has a dark, slightly brownish metallic sheen without the sparkle of clean silver, and the modeler needs it for gun muzzles, for mufflers, for an engine's exhaust manifold and for the armor plate around exhaust openings.

The best result comes from a thin coat on a smooth dark base, because metallic particles lose their sheen on a matte and rough surface. A heavy coat, on the other hand, merges the pigment into a uniform area and the metallic character disappears from it. It therefore pays to build the shade up gradually and to let each coat set between passes.

• Use: barrels, mufflers, manifolds, brake discs, scorched plate
• Character: dark metal with a warm cast, the sparkle held back
• It suits military vehicles as well as models of cars and motorcycles
• Once dry it takes polishing with a cotton swab to a fine metallic sheen

The whole range is built for spraying with an airbrush and is thinned with water, or with Acrysion Thinner. Airbrushes and cups are rinsed out after work with Acrysion Tool Cleaner. The bottle has to be stirred thoroughly every time, because metallic pigment settles to the bottom faster than ordinary colorant.

The shade takes dark dust weathering and oil paints well, so further wear can be built on it without trouble. Combined with deep rust it produces a convincing transition between heat-soaked and corroding steel.